Word: workless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MacArthur Park in downtown Los Angeles is a wastebasket for crumpled lives. On its grimy benches and littered walks gather the old, the warped, the baffled, the embittered, the workless, aimless flotsam of a great city. A faded woman in an antiquated ball dress and long black gloves glides along, clutching a parasol. Two fat, coarse-faced girls stroll hand in hand. An old man sits limp and vacant-eyed, numbed by the weight of his loneliness...
...opera unfolded, detailing the eating, loving, fighting and drinking habits of the inhabitants of Mahagonny during seven workless days of each week, the audience repeatedly broke in with applause-most notably at the end of Alabama-Song, a savage but haunting number in which Lotte Lenya made her debut as a singer more than three decades...
...being able at last to leave his bird shooting at Sandringham and rejoin his wife at this exciting moment of her life." Last January he announced acidly that "Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon leave for a holiday in the West Indies to recover from the strain of their almost workless year...
...restlessness worsening along with his press notices (latest from London's Sunday Express: "Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon leave for a holiday in the West Indies to recover from the strain of their almost workless year"), ex-Photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones signed on with London's Sunday Times as "artistic adviser" and occasional cameraman-at an undisclosed salary. Insisted his new editor: "It is a real job of work...